Interview – Michael Butler
Michael Butler talks about humanitarian intervention, the challenges to R2P and its relevance today, the norm life-cycle model, and the ethics of protection.
Interview – Kai Michael Kenkel
Kai Michael Kenkel talks about shifts in UN peacekeeping missions and the role of the UN and member states, as well as Brazil’s role in the global order.
Interview – Jan Lüdert
Jan Lüdert discusses normative practices of appropriateness, challenges to state sovereignty, decision-making in the United Nations, and pedagogies in international relations.
Prosecuting Heads of State: Sovereignty Immunity and the Anti-Impunity Norm
Black-boxing the internal structure of the norm pushes us to think about contestation surrounding particular behavioural prescriptions in overly dichotomous terms.
Norms, Norm Violations, and IR Theory
With the shift from a unipolar world to a multipolar one, understanding the interactions between strong powers and norms, norm violations, and norm shifts is important.
Norm Contestation, Political Assassinations, and Targeted Killings
While democratic or liberal-democratic states have championed positive norms, they have also taken-up targeted killings which defy long-established conventions.
Exhuming Norms: Comparing Investigations of Forced Disappearances
The norm theories from International Relations fail to account for the differences in interpretation and implementation of the norms surrounding forced disappearance.
10th Anniversary Interview – Charlotte Epstein
To celebrate E-IR’s 10th anniversary we asked some of our existing interviewees two further questions reflecting on the last decade in International Relations.
The Postcolonial Perspective: Why We Need to Decolonize Norms
Normation, normalization and nomos shift the focus from treating a norm as given to considering its initial constitution, to account for the form that a norm takes.
Evolving Norms: How the Libyan & Syrian Conflicts Have Affected the R2P
Though the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm suffered a setback in the wake of the Syria crisis, the 2011 Libyan intervention offers hope & guidance for its evolution.
